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I have a GS300 that has travelled 136000Klms without mechanical or electrical incident .

Over the last few days it has momentarily lost all electrical power. The first two times it was very quick, all the intruments, lights, radio etc lost power but the motor kept going presumably because the power cut was very short.

The last occurence seemed to be about two seconds. All power was lost and this time the motor stalled.

I rolled to the side of the road. All power had returned and the car started without difficulty.

I have checked the battery, "jiggled" the cables, fuses, relays etc.

I cannot bring the problem on and each time it happened was in normal cruising driving, gentle acceleration etc.

PLEASE, has anyone experienced this problem or have any ideas?

Ric

Have the battery checked out in detail. I had a similar experience in a Volvo where the power dropped as I stopped the vehicle a few times. Later under gradual acceleration and up a hill all power was lost and the engine quit. This time I could not start the car and had to have it towed. Turns out one of the many plates in the battery had come loose and had touched a neighboring plate shorting out the battery. They tell me the earlier power outages could be attributed to the plates briefly touching but not making permanent contact. The plate support finally gave way and contact between plates was constant rather than occasional.

Worth having them check the battery. 136000 miles maybe its time to treat yourself to a new battery. <_<

Thank you. The battery is only 18 months old but I guess that is no guarantee. I will swap it over and see what happens.

Thank you for the response

Ric

My Volvo was 4 months old and I suspect the battery not much older. It was just a faulty build and didn't have any issue with length of use. Good luck.

I have a GS300 that has travelled 136000Klms without mechanical or electrical incident .

Over the last few days it has momentarily lost all electrical power. The first two times it was very quick, all the intruments, lights, radio etc lost power but the motor kept going presumably because the power cut was very short.

The last occurence seemed to be about two seconds. All power was lost and this time the motor stalled.

I rolled to the side of the road. All power had returned and the car started without difficulty.

I have checked the battery, "jiggled" the cables, fuses, relays etc.

I cannot bring the problem on and each time it happened was in normal cruising driving, gentle acceleration etc.

PLEASE, has anyone experienced this problem or have any ideas?

Ric

Have the battery checked out in detail. I had a similar experience in a Volvo where the power dropped as I stopped the vehicle a few times. Later under gradual acceleration and up a hill all power was lost and the engine quit. This time I could not start the car and had to have it towed. Turns out one of the many plates in the battery had come loose and had touched a neighboring plate shorting out the battery. They tell me the earlier power outages could be attributed to the plates briefly touching but not making permanent contact. The plate support finally gave way and contact between plates was constant rather than occasional.

Worth having them check the battery. 136000 miles maybe its time to treat yourself to a new battery. <_<

I have a 2008 Lexus GS and an iPhone 3G.

With version 2.X of the iphone software, handsfree, phonebook transfer, auto connect all worked great. The only thing that didn't work was playing voicemail over the handsfree-it just didnt play.

I upgraded to version 3.0 of the software and the voicemail playback issue has been solved. The problem, however, is that now the phone doesn't always auto-connect to the handsfree. It seems to connect now about 25% of the time and when it doesn't, the only way to connect seems to be to delete the device on my phone and re-pair it manually (which, of course, can't be done while moving).

Does anyone else have version 3.0 issues with Lexus Handsfree? Is there a solution that anyone has come up with? Is there a way to advise Apple of the problem?

Thanks

I have an original iPhone (2G) that has the 3.0 OS version. I have not had any problems with the phone connecting to the car via Bluetooth - auto connect works fine, every time. I have not tried to sync the phone book which it sounds like you have done. Any chance the phone and car are trying to synchronize the phone book and it is causing it to fail on auto-connect?

Recently I had the opportunity to drive my 2008 GS 350 AWD and my wife's BMW 530xi on the same day across the same road in excess of 90mph (Yeah, I know I shouldn't but unfortunately circumstances warranted it) and confirmed something I previously only suspected. Does the GS350 experience excessive "lift" at high speed? Not enough down force air flow management to plant the front end with purpose? I had noticed a light feel in the front end after 80 or 85 mph before and figured the drifting steering was just part of the thrill.

Has anyone else experienced the drifting front end at speed? Any spoiler fixes to add additional down force and keep the front end in control?